New in Flash Professional 8

What’s New in Flash Professional 8

Welcome to the second article about the new release, Flash 8. In the first article, I showed you the new features available in all editions of Flash 8. This article will cover at the new features that are only available within the Professional edition of Flash 8. Flash Professional 8 is aimed at advanced web designers and web developers. Macromedia recommends that it should be used by people who work with Flash on a regular basis. People who use Flash 8 infrequently should use Flash Basic 8.

This article is part of the new interactive e-book; Out of my mind: Flash 8 Power

Overview

Everything discussed within the article applies only to Flash Professional 8 so it will help if you have a copy installed. You can download a trial version from the Macromedia Web site. The article doesn’t include exercises but it will probably be useful for you to try out the new features as they’re covered.

I’ll cover the following areas in the article:

Custom anti-alias for text
Filters
Blends
Custom easing controls
Bitmap smoothing
Runtime bitmap caching
Video changes

We’ll start by looking at changes to text in Flash.

Sas Jacobs

Sas Jacobs Hello. I'm the Principal of Anything Is Possible, an Australian web development business specialising in web applications development and training. I'm interested in using Flash with dynamic content and I've presented at a number of International conferences on topics relating to applications development, XML and scripting components. I have recently released my second print book Beginning XML with DOM and Ajax to match the first one - Foundation XML for Flash. I have a business web site
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